The recording is on the quiet side, so you might need to turn this one up - and actually from the couch rather than at the desk today because I’m feeling casual. I am really enjoying this. Like I sat down to play a game half an hour ago but I’ve been on Monkeytype the whole time. >.>
Portico68 BL
NuPhy Night Breeze lienars (POK stem, long-pole, factory lubed)
Finally built up my Salvation, have been using for about a week or two at work and absolutely loving it.
S/O to all the folks here who gave me tips on silent tactiles to check out. I ended up going with TTC Slient Bluish Whites and they’re exactly what I was looking for: smooth, with a sharp-ish tactility and a very pleasant thud/clack sound.
Beautiful. I’m inspired by this. I already have a set of caps in a similar tone on the way to go on my navy anodised Q1. Hope mine comes out looking as clean as yours.
Giving MDA Future Suzuri a try with Blackberries today.
I love having a dark-colored MDA set with kitting support for a bunch of keebs, but I do wish the QC was just a bit better.
The colors are fantastic, but the legends on some of the colored keys are fairly blurry, and are sometimes pretty off-center. That fleck on the pipe key isn’t dust, but a scratch that doesn’t seem to buff-out - I keep wanting to brush it off and remember it’s there to stay.
That’s about all the complaints, though - as long as you don’t look too close, I think it looks fantastic - and I love the feel of MDA, even if I’m not the fastest or most accurate with it compared to others. I find it quite comfy. The homing bars are a little faint - with my nerve damage I can hardly feel them at all, though it doesn’t seem to be much of an issue for me. Still - worth noting that the homing here is subtle at best.
So far it’s hard for me to pick whether I prefer the sound of these or ABS MT3 on the Blackberries. This is where I have some trouble finding the right descriptive words… with MT3, they definitely sound deeper - but with the MDA they sound… more full? Like a wider range of the spectrum? I’ll try to find a more concrete way to talk about this for my upcoming review of the Blackberries (and possibly this keyset).
A budget keyboard. KBDCraft Kit Adam in a case built from blocks in the kid’s LEGO bin. Switches are lubed Kailh browns that I received when I purchased a couple of mystery switch packs. The keycaps are a $20 MDA set from AliExpress. The colors are kind of loud but the keyboard sounds and feels nice to type on.
The joy of the Adam kit is precisely how crazy one can make it with a few random parts and some imagination. Yours looks amazing. And you’ll always know which board is yours.